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Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 10, 1984

Topics

Love Rules Out Up Context Playing

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

Focus People Movies Actor Director

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

Life Woman Me Better Interesting

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

Brother Growing Up Attention Growing

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

Jennifer Saunders

Support Flaws Reason Everything Keep

I grew up singing in a church choir.

Singing Church Choir Up Grew

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Me Writing Need Books Like Offer

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

John Hickenlooper

Good Father Son Yourself Grow You

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.

Man Believe Old Man Old Typical

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

Music Too Much Talk Press Like Much

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

Business Uncertainty America Recovery

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

School World Help Play Afraid Tell

I've met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn's. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing: to hear other people's attitudes on how they deal with their disease and how they stay positive.

Positive Healing People Talking New

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